Unlike action movies, documentaries have a unique ability to make us smarter on a topic, nearly instantly. They can also make us feel deeply, like a good novel or fictional film. Not every documentary ...

Reality doesn’t bite. Well, okay, at times it does. A number of our choices for the best documentaries of the year capture turbulent realities, ominous politics, and, on occasion, stark tragedy.

There were so many great, impactful and memorable movies on the 2024 movie schedule, and that’s also true when it comes to documentaries released over the past 12 months. Whether they appeared on some ...

The truth hurts — any longtime documentary viewer, who’s likely sat through hundreds of hours of narrators intoning about atrocities over you-are-there footage, can tell you that. It’s also a concept ...